Dr. Johannes Prio Sambodho is the Research Lead for SKALA, a significant Australian-Indonesian development program partnership aimed at improving basic service governance in Indonesia. He is also a former lecturer in the Department of Sociology at the University of Indonesia. His current research focuses on collaborative governance between civil society organizations and local government in basic service governance, as well as on improving the quality of local government spending to enhance service delivery in Indonesia. Dr. Sambodho holds a PhD in Anthropology from the University of Amsterdam and a Master's in Public Policy from the National University of Singapore.